Domesday Book / Doomsday Book: Roots of
England, and Basis for Census -- survey of people, animals and implements in England
Domesday: A Search for the Roots of England by
Michael Wood --- a reader writes: ... with the insight and skill of a master storyteller, Wood uses clues provided by their data to sketch the evolution of a people, and then to paint an engaging portrait of the common man in 1086. Along the way, he introduces us to the native, colonizing, mercenary, and migratory populations alike: Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Celts, Romans, Danes, French. We watch as the dynamics of domination, subjugation and assimilation characterize their interactions with one another. And we conclude with him that the Conquest was not the beginning of civilization, as some would have it,
but the interruption and re-routing of the history of a very old, already well-defined society.
The Domesday Book: England's Heritage, Then & Now by Thomas
Hinde -- reader desripction: The book includes over 12,500 entries,
hundreds of photographs and line drawings, a glossary and mini biographies of
almost 200 major landholders at the time the survey was taken. A wonderful book
for medieval history lovers!
From Domesday Book to Magna Carta: 1087-1216 (The Oxford History of
England) by Austin Lane Poole -- Book Description
A landmark study
of key century in medieval history, this book comprises the history of the
century and a quarter which elapsed between the compilation of Domesday Book and
the issue of the Magna Carta, the two greatest documents of English medieval
history. The volume opens with chapters in which the position of the monarchy
and social and economic background of the period in its feudal, rural, and urban
aspects are discussed. In the political sphere it describes the building up of
the great continental dominions, which in the time of Henry II are known as the
Angevin Empire, and the collapse of the battle of Bouvines in 1214; it embraces
also the attempts of the English kings to establish their supremacy over
Scotland and Wales, and the conquest of Ireland. The work of the ecclesiastical
reformers and the conflicts between church and state associated with the
archbishops Anselm and Becket and Pope Innocent III are discussed. The progress
of education, the contribution of Englishmen to the twelth-century renaissance,
the literature, and the art of the age are brought under review. Finally, the
great development of the common law brought about by the legal reforms of Henry
II is traced, and the book ends with a description of the events leading up
Magna Carta and its sequel, civil war, in which the reign of King John was
brought to a close.
From Domesday Book to Magna Carta: 1087-1216 by
Austin Lane Poole
Domesday Book and Beyond : Three Essays in the Early History of
England by F. W. Maitland
The Domesday Book by Elizabeth
Hallam
An
Introduction to Domesday Book by R. Rex Welldon
Finn
see also:
History of Britain: The Fate of Empire
1776-2000 by Simon Schama
A
History of Britain : At the Edge of the World, 3500 B.C.-1603
A.D by Simon Schama
A
History of Britain, Volume II: The Wars of the British 1603-1776 by Simon Schama
A
History of Britain, Volume 3: The Fate of Empire 1776-2002 by Simon Schama
DVD:
A
History of Britain - The Complete Collection by Simon
Schama